Yuval Noah Harari: Elon Musk’s many AI contradictions | The Economist

Everybody realizes this is very. dangerous to give AI control of finance, to give AI control of of of of war. But everybody, like Elon Musk, are. telling us, "But this is inevitable. What do you want from me? I'm just the richest person in the world. in charge of one of the biggest AI. corporations in the world. What can I. do?". Uh the the the the narrative of. inevitability. is a narrative of uh uh having no. responsibility. What really struck me. about the conversation you had with with.

Elon Musk is a kind of contradiction. Because he says in 10 years AI will take. over the world, and then he worries so. much about Muslim immigration causing. civil war in Britain in 20 years. This. doesn't make sense. If the AIs take over. the planet in 10 years, why do you care. so much about things that will have an. effect in when we have no idea what the. planet will be like. Similarly, he he. gave another prediction, I think equally.

important, that money will disappear in. 10 years. And I think he's correct. because the AIs will take over the. financial system. And then he cuts US. aid to Africa because he wants to save. money. And again, at one point he says. the solution for mass unemployment, because AI will take the jobs, will be. for the government to just issue checks. for everybody. And when you pushed back. and said, "What about inflation?" he. says there there won't be inflation. There'll be deflation because there'll.

be so much more products and services. produced by AI. If this is the case, why. do you need to save money today?